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1. Can you use O.9NS on a mainline and dopamine on a piggyback

   ab1984 replied to ab1984's topic in Patient Medications

   The only way I can see that the pt would get a bolus dose is if the NS was restarted at a faster rate after the dopamine was done, and I would hope that everyone that would have been doing this way...

2. Can you use O.9NS on a mainline and dopamine on a piggyback

   ab1984 replied to ab1984's topic in Patient Medications

   The clamp above the pump is not a roller clamp it is a little one u slide the tube through that pinches it

3. Can you use O.9NS on a mainline and dopamine on a piggyback

   ab1984 replied to ab1984's topic in Patient Medications

   Ok so I think I need to give more explanation. The dopamine was set at 10mls an hr on the top, primary, drip line of the pump, with no setting for the fluid, I just used the main IV, NS, line to run...

4. Can you use O.9NS on a mainline and dopamine on a piggyback

   ab1984 replied to ab1984's topic in Patient Medications

   I was at work last night and I had a pt that was getting NS and then I got a order for dopamine,so I clamped the NS and lowered it then put the dopamine in the piggyback port. The next nurse came on...

5. Can you use O.9NS on a mainline and dopamine on a piggyback

   ab1984 posted a topic in Patient Medications

   I was at work and had a pt getting NS last night and then had a order for dopamine so i used the piggyback port for it to be able to give bolus that were ordered in between the dopamine. The NS was...